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Hi, my name is Maria, I am twenty-one years old and I’m a second year Music Education student here at the University of Aberdeen.
I am no stranger to my own mental health struggles. I left school abruptly at seventeen because of the pandemic and took a year out, which…
Before I started to work in the eLearning team here at the University I thought I knew what accessibility meant – and who it was for. I thought accessibility was special provisions for a few people. Think large text and audio description. How wrong I was!
Working in the eLearning…
Over the last year working for the eLearning team at the University of Aberdeen I’ve learnt how I can make digital content and learning material accessible for myself. When I joined the team, I had been a student for three years and wasn’t aware that some of…
Digital accessibility has been a widely publicised issue since I first started at university. Even most students without any additional learning needs should be aware of the importance of, for example, having alternative text in place for images and closed captions for videos – because those things…
“I can’t focus if something is boring.” It may sound ridiculous, butthis is what I googled back in 2020 after I returned to my home country completely shattered as the university experience turned out to be far from what I have expected. A few moments after, a…
When I first came into university 3 years ago, I had the feeling that since I achieved as much as to pass all my exams and actually become a university student myself, my academic skills were great. Well, it did not take much time for me to realise that in…
Happy new year everyone, how are you and how was your winter break? The new year beginning means the start of the new semester creeping up on us. It’s time to start planning your coming back to uni checklist if you are coming back to campus, do not worry I…
We are finally more than halfway through the first sub-session of this academic year and getting closer to winter break. Now with blended learning, the returning of more face-to-face teaching and getting back to having a demanding day-to-day routine, studying becomes more of a chore while the days go…
With the end of the semester approaching at an alarming rate, the thought of exams is looming in many students’ minds. I for one have never found preparing for exams a fun experience and the stress that it causes is definitely something I try to avoid. I’ve found some things…
As I approach my final year at the University of Aberdeen, I feel the need to reflect upon my experience. While I reminisce, nostalgia washes over me, and I am hit with a wide array of emotions. What comes to mind are mostly positive memories from exploring…
